Volcano types and their impacts

Create extensive featureless lava plateaus

They represent the the largest contributors to global climate change and large-scale landscaping

E.g. the Deccan Traps in India

Vast, shallow-sided and broad

Their eruptions are gentle enough to become tourist attractions

E.g. Hawaii & Iceland

Steep sided convex cones

Explosive eruptions of pyroclastic flows have deadly impacts

E.g. Mount Pelée, Martinique

Formed from alternating eruptions of ash, tephra, and lava which build up in layers

E.g. Mount Fuji, Japan

Tephra: rock fragments ejected from a volcano during an eruption